Background
Natalia Duddington was born on November 1, 1886 in Tver', Russian Federation. She was the daughter of Alexander Ivanovich Ertel. Together with her parents she lived in the Voronezh region.
Natalia Duddington was born on November 1, 1886 in Tver', Russian Federation. She was the daughter of Alexander Ivanovich Ertel. Together with her parents she lived in the Voronezh region.
She graduated from the M.N. Stoyunina girl’s high school (St. Petersburg, 1905) and University of London (1911, with a master's degree in philosophy).
Translation skills Daddington studied with C. Garnett, who is considered the best in England translator of the texts of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.
Duddington translated into English many works of Russian classics of the XIX-XX centuries: "Captain's daughter" A.S. Pushkin (1928), "Oblomov" I.A/ Goncharova (1929), "The Golovlyov Family" M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin (1931), "On the Other Side" by V. Kin (1932), "Smoke" by I.S. Turgenev (1949), Russian fairy tales by A.N. Afanasyeva (1967) and others, as well as the works of Russian religious philosophers B.C. Solovyov, N.A. Berdyaeva, N.O. Lossky, S.L. Frank and others.
She married an Englishman and stayed in Great Britain. From June 1914 to September 1915, she stayed with her family in her mother's mansion in Ertelevo, Voronezh Uyezd.